"I have never seen such wonderful program like theirs," a student's mother said.

"It's a choice between hot and hell," said voter Annette Scott.

"By the time we reached the border, the man next to me had died from bleeding," a young Ugandan man said.

"The number one challenge is to stabilize the economy, send signals of confidence about the future, the plans we have for the future, to the markets, to businesses, to international investors."

A mosque in Florida was pulled as a polling station after an anti-Islamic backlash.

The announcement made on July 12 came less than 24 hours after it was thought participants in the church's General Synod rejected the motion.